Barracks in the quarry camp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Natzweiler, France, after April 7, 1945.
Have you ever thought about what a concentration camp really is and what dreadful stories all concentration camps contain? Well, "a concentration camp refers to a camp in which helpless people are detained or confined under harsh conditions and with no regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. Not every concentration camp is the same or follows the same regulations. This holds true for the notorious Nazi concentration camps. In January 1933, the first inhumane concentration camps in Germany were established unfortunately after Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor. Establishments of Nazi concentration camps were erected all over Germany to handle the multiple seas of people arrested as the Nazis’ enemies. SS Lieutenant General Theodor Eicke, a Nazi commandant, developed an organization and horrific procedures to administer and guard the concentration camps with regulations both for the duties of the perimeter guards and for the demoralizing treatment toward the prisoners. His model established in the 1930s characterized the devastating Nazi concentration camp system until the fateful collapse of the cruel Nazi regime in 1945" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). To learn more about the Nazi concentration camps in general, click on this link.
Have you ever thought about what a concentration camp really is and what dreadful stories all concentration camps contain? Well, "a concentration camp refers to a camp in which helpless people are detained or confined under harsh conditions and with no regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. Not every concentration camp is the same or follows the same regulations. This holds true for the notorious Nazi concentration camps. In January 1933, the first inhumane concentration camps in Germany were established unfortunately after Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor. Establishments of Nazi concentration camps were erected all over Germany to handle the multiple seas of people arrested as the Nazis’ enemies. SS Lieutenant General Theodor Eicke, a Nazi commandant, developed an organization and horrific procedures to administer and guard the concentration camps with regulations both for the duties of the perimeter guards and for the demoralizing treatment toward the prisoners. His model established in the 1930s characterized the devastating Nazi concentration camp system until the fateful collapse of the cruel Nazi regime in 1945" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). To learn more about the Nazi concentration camps in general, click on this link.